{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When a man has passed through the gate of death, however, and after the first few days has laid aside the etheric body, he starts an existence which flows backwards, beginning with the day of death, passing then to the day before that, and so on through the whole of his life, in the direction from death to birth. But he lives backwards through the *nights*—the periods of sleep—not through the days. Hence the time during which his life is lived through in this backward order amounts to about one third of the span of his earthly life. If a man dies at the age of sixty, this backward ‘journey’ lasts about twenty years, that is to say, this other life is passed through three times as quickly as the life on Earth. 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Und dann durchleben wir dieses Leben zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt so, daß wir hinschauen auf die Nächte, in denen sich, allerdings unbewußt, Bilder erzeugt haben, die in einer gewissen Weise negative Abbilder des Lebens sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":196,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-06-01/p007"}],"english":["GA 240/1924-06-01/p006"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":196,"en_words":160,"ratio":0.82,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6516,"original_word_count":6430,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"D. S. 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